Improvement in malt-reservoirs



ttttri %i'ctr5 @anni attire CHARLES STOLL, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK,

Letters Patent No. 110,601da.ted December 27, 1870.

IM PROVEI-WENT kIN MALT-RES'E RVOI'RS.

The Schedule referred to ln these Letters Patent and making part of thesaune To all lwhom, tt may concern:A

Be it known that I, CHARLES Sronn, of Brooklynhin the county .of Kingsand State of New York, havev invented a new and improved Malt-Reservoir;and Ido hereby declare the-following to bea full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make.and use the same,

reference being had to the accompanying drawing' forming part of thisspecification, in'which drawing- Figure l represents a vertical sectionof this invention in the plane a: w, g. 3. Figure 2 is a similar sectionof the same in the plane y y, lig. 3. v

Figure 3 is a horizontal section of the same. Similar letters indica-tecorresponding parts.

This invention relates to a malt-reservoir, which. is builtin the formof a tower, and divided by verf tical partitions in three compartments;oneV to form the well of anelev'ator, and the others to receive malt ofdili'ereutkind, the elevator being provided wit-l1 two spouts, one toeach malt-compartment,

while the malt-compartments have inclined bottoms,

forming a hopper, which is closed at its mouth by two slides, whichserve t0 let ont the malt from the two compartments in lsuch a mannerthat the malt being stored in a tower, is supplied with a snflcientvquantity of l'resh air to prevent it from molding; and furthermore, nodust can get to the malt, and it can be readily kept out of contact withthe light and with moisture, so that it isr not liable to sprout; and

:the necessity ofhandling the same is avoided, since it can be readilycaused to slide down from the tower to the mill, and into themalt-hous`eor brewery; and by providing the tower with twomalt-compartments with a common outlet, malt'of different kinds can be.readily mixedpartition f (see g. l) in two compartments correspondingto or forming parts of the malt-compartments c d. t

The outlet of each of these compartments is coutrolled by a slide, g orh, tted'in the mputh of the hopper D, and operated by hand-levers c' j,or by any other suitable means. y

It' both slides are thrown'open, the two kinds of malt contained in thecompartments c d are mixed, but if one of theslides is closed and theother opened only one kind of malt discharges.

As the malt discharges from the compartments cd itis conductedimmediately v'to the brewery below, and -no further handling of the sameis required. The outside walls of the tower A are intended to be double,so as to protect the malt electually against the influence ofatmospheric changes, and by storing the malt in a tower rising from thetop of the malthous'e, it is placed in such a posit-ionthat itis exposedto sulicient draught of air to prevent it from heating or molding orfromspronting; and furthermore it is kept free from all dust .and fromcontact with the light, and after it has been onceelevated to the tower,

it requires no further handling.

In my reservoir maltoan be preserved for a long time; and if it isdesired to turn the same over to be refreshed it c an be readily made t0run down, and then again elevated without requiring any hand labor, theelevator being driven by power.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isf- I Thearrangement of a tower, A, having double walls to keep out the moistureand light, and' divided in three vcompartments c cl e, one for theelevator and the two others to receive dilerent kinds of malt, theelevator being provided with two spouts, one for each .malt-compartment,and the malt-compartments, being closed at the bottom by a common hopperprovided with slides which allow of mixing. the two kinds of malt or ofdischarging each kind of malt independj ent of the other, as hereinshown and described.

CHARLES STOLL.

Witnesses:

EDWARD Hans, W. HAUFF.

